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Sambhar Lake
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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A salt lake in Rajputana, India, on the borders of the two states of Jodhpur and Jaipur. The town of the same name has a railway station 53 m. N.E. from Ajmer: pop. (1901) 10,873. The area of the lake when full is about 90 sq. m., but it usually dries up altogether in the hot season. Since 1870 the British government has worked the salt under a. lease from the two states interested, supplying great part of N. and Central India. The annual output averages about 126,000 tons, yielding a profit of more than half a million sterling.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Sambhar Lake'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/s/sambhar-lake.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Sambhar Lake'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/s/sambhar-lake.html. 1910.
